6February
Simon Jenkins on the hypocricy at the DCMS. How can Jowell and her colleagues patronise the alcohol and gambling lobbies and yet blindly repress other indulgences and addictions, notably street drugs. Why are they filling city centres with drunks and gamblers yet filling prisons with drug users?
The European Parliament debated how the military junta across the Atlantic is handling data about Europeans.
Julie Bindel on why there are so few convictions for rape. We don't like the original headline, Why is rape so easy to get away with?, because it assumes too much.
Fridgeblog on the 17
argument. It's based on the long-cancelled series 24
, but adapted for a British audience... Anyway, Penguin argues, clearly it's ridiculous to base actual policy on events that in practical terms only ever happen in fiction, isn't it? Isn't it?
Jenny McCartney on the growth of debt culture, pointing out, Many young and middle-aged people are paying frighteningly scant attention to their pension provision, partly because their working lives are already beset by the constant need to service a permanently thirsty maw of current debt. She doesn't point out that the Labour government has decided to pay for just about everything on the never-never - Gordon Brown's PFI programme has committed a growing portion of government expenditure for the next quarter-century and more.
The A-word: Enpeeaah tries to discuss certain taboo words and phrases without mentioning them.
Clucking Faster: Overgrown Path photographs death and destruction at a Suffolk poultry concentration camp.
Speaking out: A new voice for the jewish people in Britain.
Stephen Glover in Monday's Indytab: There was never a magazine surer of
itself than The Economist
. It makes the Daily Mail look positively racked with doubt. There is no problem in the world, no looming difficulty, to which the clever clogs perched in their ivory tower in St James's do not have an instant solution that has somehow escaped the rest of dumb humanity.
The Conservative party has given notice that it will end the identity register if and when it comes to power. This is what Labour should have done over the boondoggle that was rail privatisation. Why didn't it do so?
